Date |
Topics |
Video
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PPT |
PDF |
Reading
Due |
Assignment Due |
Tue
1/8 |
Introduction to the Design,
Prototyping, and Evaluation of Human-Computer Interfaces |

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125MB |

2 MB
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None |
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Thur
1/10 |
Designing the Future:
Early Visions of HCI Class
Introductions |
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64MB |

1 MB |
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
Tools For Thought Ch 9 (Engelbart Demo) |
#1 Project
Proposal (Individual) |
Tue
1/15 |
Choose Project
Groups
Problem Finding
Working as a Team
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3 MB |

1 MB |
Chapter 3 of The Design of Sites
Tips for
Working Successfully in a Group by Randy Pausch
The Discipline of
Teams |
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Thur
1/17 |
Studio Task #1:
Gestalt Principles [led by Kim]
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Gestalt
Principles from Universal Principles of Design |
#2 Studio
Task #1 - Gestalt Principles (Individual) |
Tue
1/22 |
Design Discovery: Contextual Inquiry
Design Discovery: Task
Analysis
|
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23 MB |

1.4 MB |
Chapter 3 of Contextual Design
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#3 Problem
Finding & Research (Group) |
Thur
1/24 |
Design Exploration |

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122 MB |

2.3 MB |
Pg. 35-51 from Buxton's Sketching User
Experiences |
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Tue
1/29 |
Human Abilities
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3 MB |

800 KB |
Ch. 2: The Human
Information Processor, from The Psychology of Human-Computer
Interaction By Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, & Allen Newell,
1983, pp. 23-83 |
#4 Contextual Inquiry & 1st Sketches (Group) |
Thur
1/31 |
Video Prototyping &
Concept Videos
Midterm Course
Evaluation
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245 MB |

1.5 MB |
Beaudouin-Lafon & MacKay, pp. 1-22
Video
Prototyping Examples
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Tue
2/5 |
Presentations #1
CI/TA/Sketches
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#5 Task Analysis &
Sketches Slides (Group) |
Thur
2/7 |
Conceptual Models & Interface Metaphors
|
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18 MB |

1 MB |
Norman Chapter 1
(subset)
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#6 Hall of Fame and
Shame (Individual) - due Fri at 5 PM |
Tue
2/12 |
Work on project in class
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#7 Web Site
(Group) |
Thur
2/14 |
Early Stage
Prototyping
|
 |

9 MB |

1 MB |
Chapter
4 of
The Design of Sites
"Making a Paper
Prototype" (Ch 4) from Paper Prototyping by Carolyn
Snyder
Discussion of guidelines
for user observation
By Kathleen Gomoll and Anne Nichol
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Tue
2/19 |
Heuristic
Evaluation (Nikki) |
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5 MB
|

900 KB
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Lewis &
Rieman 4.3-4.4
Nielsen HE chapter (read 5 links under "Heuristic Evaluation") |
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Thur
2/21 |
Watch & Critique Concept Videos in Class (Nikki) |
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What do Prototypes Prototype?
by Houde and Hill
Optional:
The Perils of Prototyping by Alan Cooper |
#8
Concept Video & 3 Sketches (Group)
#9
Simple Heuristic Evaluation (Individual)-due Friday
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Tue
2/26 |
Presentations #2:
Lo-Fi Prototype & Test |
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#10 Low-Fidelity
Prototyping and Usability Testing (Group)
Example Consent Form |
Thur
2/28 |
MIDTERM
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Tue
3/5 |
User Testing
Final Course Evaluation
|
 |

9 MB
|

700 KB
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Appendix A from The Design of Sites
optional: Statistica
Ch1, and parts of
Ch3
optional:
Lewis & Rieman Ch. 5 |
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Thur
3/7 |
Visual Design |
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5 MB
|

1.6 MB
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Mullet &
Sano,Designing Visual Interfaces,
Ch. 2 and
Ch. 5 |
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Tue
3/12 |
Presentations #3:
Interctive Prototype |
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#11 Interactive
Prototype (Group)
#12 Final Presentation (Group) |
Thur 3/14 |
Presentations #3:
Interactive Prototype (cont). |
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#13 Poster (Group)
Poster Template
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Thur 3/21 |
PROJECT FAIR: PRESENTATIONS & POSTER
SESSION, 10:30-12:20,MGH 241
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